-wxWindows 2.3.0
+wxWidgets 2.5.4
---------------
-Welcome to wxWindows 2, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
+*** Please note that this is an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT.
+*** Unless you need the new features and bug fixes, you may wish to
+*** use the official 2.4.x stable series. You are still encouraged
+*** to try the releases from 2.5.x branch, of course, and unstable
+*** doesn't mean that they crash all the time -- just that the API
+*** may change in a backwards incompatible way. If this doesn't frighten
+*** you, do try this release and please let us know what you think!
+
+Welcome to wxWidgets, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where
possible) the native controls.
-In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as frames, scrolling
-windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons, device contexts, printing,
-splitter windows and so on, there are wrappers for common file operations,
-and facilities for writing TCP/IP applications, thread handling, and more.
-Where certain features are not available on a platform, such as MDI and
-tree controls on Unix, they are emulated.
+In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as
+frames, scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons,
+device contexts, printing, splitter windows and so on, there are
+wrappers for common file operations, and facilities for writing
+TCP/IP applications, thread handling, and more. Where certain
+features are not available on a platform, such as MDI and tree
+controls on Unix, they are emulated.
-A detailed 1400-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF and
-Windows Help form: see the docs hierarchy.
+A detailed 1800-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF
+and Windows Help form: see the docs hierarchy.
-For a quick start, point your Web browser at docs/html/index.htm for a
-list of important documents and samples.
+For a quick start, point your Web browser at docs/html/index.htm
+for a list of important documents and samples.
Changes in this release
-----------------------
Platforms supported
-------------------
-wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms:
+wxWidgets currently supports the following platforms:
-- Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT
+- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Pocket PC
+- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1 and GTK+ 2
+- Most Unix variants with X11 (beta)
- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
-- Most Unix variants with GTK+
-- Mac (not covered here: please see the wxWindows web site
- for details)
+- MacOS 9.x and 10.x using Carbon (10.3 and above preferred)
+- MacOS 10.x using Cocoa (beta)
+- OS/2 (beta)
Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt
file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details.
-See also http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/platform.html.
+See also http://www.wxwidgets.org/platform.htm.
Files
-----
The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
-target system. Documentation is available mainly in zip format.
-Some add-on libraries (such as the Object Graphics Library) are
-available in zip form only. In the following, x.y.z represents
-the current version number.
-
-wxWindows for GTK distribution
-------------------------------
-
-wxGTK-x.y.z.tgz wxGTK source distribution. You will
- need the HTML, HTB and/or PDF documentation
- (see below)
-wxGTK-demos-x.y.z.tgz wxGTK demos source
-wxGTK-samples-x.y.z.tgz wxGTK samples source
-wxGTK-x.y.z-0.src.rpm wxGTK Linux source as an RPM, without manuals
-wxGTK-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux binaries as an RPM, without manuals
-wxGTK-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux minimum development system as an RPM
-
-wxWindows for Motif distribution
---------------------------------
-
-wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution. Contains
- TIFF, JPEG, Tex2RTF source plus HTML
- documentation.
-
-wxWindows for MS Windows distribution
--------------------------------------
-
-setup.exe, setup.w* Setup files (Windows 95/98, NT)
- in floppy-disk-sized chunks
-wxMSW-x.y.z-setup.zip Zip archive containing the
- setup files
-wxMSW-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all the
- files that are in the setup
- distribution
-
-As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains:
-
-- Windows HTML Help versions of the documentation (docs/htmlhelp);
-- Object Graphics Library, in contrib/src/ogl;
-- a Dialog Editor binary;
-- a Tex2RTF binary;
-- Life! sample binary;
-- the JPEG library source;
-- the TIFF library source.
-
-Documentation files
--------------------
-
-wxWindows-x.y.z-WinHelp.zip WinHelp documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-PDF.zip Acrobat PDF documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-HTML.zip HTML documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-HTMLHelp.zip Windows HTML Help documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-HTB.zip wxHTML documentation (for
- use with the helpview utility)
-wxWindows-x.y.z-Word.zip MS Word documentation (currently,
- database class documentation only)
-wxWindows-x.y.z-DocSource.zip Documentation source code (not required)
-
-Add-ons
--------
-
-wxWindows-x.y.z-cw.zip Metrowerks CodeWarrior 4.1 project files
-wxWindows-x.y.z-wat.zip Watcom C++ project files
-wxWindows-x.y.z-vc.zip Visual C++ project files (in wxMSW distr.)
-wxWindows-x.y.z-bc.zip Borland C++ project files (in wxMSW distr.)
-jpeg.zip JPEG library (already included
- in most distributions)
-tiff.zip TIFF library (already included
- in most distributions)
-ogl3.zip Optional Object Graphics Library
-mmedia.zip Optional MMedia library (Motif, GTK, MSW)
-stc.zip Optional wxStyledTextCtrl library
- (Motif, GTK, MSW)
-tex2rtf2.zip Tex2RTF documentation tool
-wxGTK-gl-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm add-on OpenGL binary as an RPM
+target system. See the download pages for details.
Installation
------------
-wxWindows 2 needs to be compiled before you can test out
-the samples or write your own applications.
-For installation information, please see the install.txt file
-in the individual directories:
+wxWidgets needs to be compiled before you can test out the samples
+or write your own applications. For installation information, please
+see the install.txt file in the individual directories:
docs/msw
docs/gtk
docs/motif
+ docs/mac
+ docs/cocoa
+ docs/x11
+ docs/mgl
+ docs/os2
Licence information
-------------------
docs/lgpl.txt
Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of
-proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWindows in
+proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets in
addition to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary,
the licence is LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted
distribution of application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you
don't have to distribute any source if you wish to write
-commercial applications using wxWindows.
+commercial applications using wxWidgets.
However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif) version
of your application, don't forget that it is linked against
GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without* exception
notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked
-against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefuly LGPL, section 6.
+against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefully LGPL, section 6.
which describes conditions for distribution of closed source applications
-linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamicaly and
+linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamically and
include source code of LGPL libraries with your product (unless it is
already present in user's system - like glibc usually is).
-If compiled with --enable-odbc (Unix only), wxWindows library will
+If compiled with --enable-odbc (Unix only), wxWidgets library will
contain iODBC library which is covered by LGPL.
If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT
-for libtiff license details.
+for libtiff licence details.
If you use JPEG image handler, documentation for your program should
contain following sentence: "This software is based in part on the work of
the Independent JPEG Group". See src/jpeg/README for details.
+If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular expressions
+support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT file for Henry Spencer's
+regular expression library copyright.
+
+If you use wxXML classes or XRC, see src/expat/COPYING for licence details.
+
Documentation
-------------
-See docs/bugs.txt for a bug list: this file is new and will initially
- be edited by hand, later generated from a web-based bug database.
-
See docs/html/index.htm for an HTML index of the major documents.
-See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWindows 2.
+See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWidgets.
See docs/tech for an archive of technical notes.
+The wxWidgets bug database can be browsed at:
+
+ http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=9863
+
The Windows help files are located in docs/winhelp.
The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf.
Further information
-------------------
-The wxWindows Web site is located at:
-
- http://www.wxwindows.org
-
-The wxGTK Web site (with further wxGTK-specific files and
-information) is located at:
+The wxWidgets Web site is located at:
- http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org
-The main wxWindows ftp site is at:
+The main wxWidgets ftp site is at:
- ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin
+ ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub
-A wxWindows CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML
+A wxWidgets CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML
front-end and hundreds of MB of compilers, utilities and other
-material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page (see the wxWindows
-web site) or contact Julian Smart <julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk>.
+material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWidgets
+web site.
-Good luck!
+Have fun!
-The wxWindows Team, 9th July, 2000
+The wxWidgets Team, February 2005
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